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E. T. NEBEN.

METHOD OF MAKING MULTICOLOR PRINTED PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.10. 1917.

1,308,098. Patented July 1, 1919.

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EMIL '1. NEBEN, h RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-N 01% T0 NMEN MANUFACTURING conran'v, or .mnsnv crrv, new aans nv, a co 11- URATIDN OF NEW J1 an specification of Letters Patent.

application filed august 10, 1917. serial No. 185,451.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, "Elam T. NEBEN, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the town of Ridgewood and State of New'dersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Method of Making Multicolor-Printed Paper, of which the following fill is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, v forming a part hereof.

The object of this invention is the production of a'unique printed material, such as cloth or paper, which may be used for decorative purposes with highly pleasing efiect and. is capable of being produced in a great variety of designs. herein described is the method which may. be practised with apparatus such as that described in Letters Patent of the linited Fitates, No. 1,199,709, dated September 26', 1916, and with such a printing roll as that described in Letters Patent No. 1,159,337,.

dated November 2, 1915, or with other apparatuses and printing surfaces, and the product herein described is such a product as that which might be produced with such apparatus and printing roll. 1n the accompanying drawings in which, for the purpose of enabling the invention to be understood more readily, are illustrated forms of apparatus similar to those shown in said Letters Patent No. 1,199,709,--

Figure l is a view in elevation, mainly in outline, showing one such form of apparatus; and

Fig. 2, is a similar view showing another form of such apparatus. I

1n practising the method which'i's herein sought to be covered, the cloth or'pa'per' or other material which is to have the novel printed surface, being suitably dampened, if

necessary, is caused to sli or slide in. contact with a printing sur ace charged with coloring matter in variegated shades or colors, whereby the material receives a printed surface, streaked longitudinally or waved in did'erent colors which mer e one which is being prlnted, but at a diderent rate of speed so that the printed design is not only somewhat streaked longitudinally without a hard line 0 The method which is.

but has a somewhat marbleized and waved effect with colors disposed somewhat irregularly as well as mer ed one into another fseparation. 1n the apparatus illustrated in Fig. 1 as adapted for the practice of the method and for the production of the novel printed surface, the paper, cloth or other material is supposed to be supplied from a roll a and to be led therefrom about an impression roller 1 b in contact with a printing roller-0 which,

as described in said Letters Patent No. 1,159,337, may have its printing surface formed of a suitable composition which is charged irregularly with a soluble dye or pigment or coloring matter which gives upco or to the paper, cloth or other material,

which slips or slides in contact with the sur- Patented duly 1, 11,

face of the roller, the paper, cloth or other material being suitably dampened, before it makes contact with the printing roller 0, as

by a suitable dampening roller 0Z. The rollers h and 0 have difierent circumferential speeds so that the paper, cloth or other material, which has the same speed of travel as, the circumferential speed of the impression roller 6 slipsor slides in contact with the printing roller 0, whereby the longitudi nally streaked and variegated'printed sur face is produced.

It is preferable, for general purposes, that the printin surface travel in the same direction as te paper, cloth or other material which is being printed, although at a different rate of speed, but. similar effects may be produced if the printin surface is stationary, as illustrated in printin counteralanced, the arrangement of the supply roll a, the impression roll 6 and the ig. 2, in which the block a is stationary, but properly till dampening device d being the same as shown.

in Fig. 1, Whether the printing surface is stationary or has a movement in the same direction as that of the travel of the prlnted sheet, it necessary that the printed sheet shall have a relative movementwith respect to the printing surface and shall slide in contact therewith. ft is also necessary, in order to produce the variegated color effect desired, that the printing surface carry a plurality of colors or be made up of a variegated composition.

Reference has been made herein to a print ing action, but it will beunde'rstood that the" printing referred to is not a printing such as is effected With the use of type or typeblocks, in Which there is a relative movement of the printed surface and the type surface toward and from each other only, but an action in which the printed surface slides in contact With the printin surface, whereby the product or the artic e of manufacture which is produced by the practice of the method is a material having a printed surface of the character referred to, in which the plurality of colors are distributed in a longitudinally streaked effect With a merging of the difierent colors Without hard lines of division.

I claim as my invention:

1, The method of producing a multicolorprinted material which consists in dampening the material and causing it to slip or slide in contact with a printing surface charged With soluble pigment in. variegated colors.

2. The method of producing a multicolorprinted material which consists in dampening the material and causing it to travel in contact With a printing surface charged With soluble pigment in variegated colors and travelino at a different rate.

' This specification signed this 9th day of August A. D. 1917.

EMIL T. NEBEN. 

